Dragon's Blood (2)
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In my previous life, when the dock was being built on this side of Longwang Village, I happened to be present. That day, I had not yet been demolished and returned to my ancestral home to retrieve some things. At that time, the villagers had not all moved away, and because it became a construction site, many villagers became workers for the construction team.
It was the local villagers who first discovered ambergris, at that time in order to build a good yacht dock, the construction side first extracted mud and sand from a shallow beach not far from the coast, planning to lower the seabed there, it was during such simple excavation work that people found the buried ambergris in the shallow muddy sand.
Unfortunately, because the excavator used at that time was too large, several pieces of Longjing tea were discovered to have been damaged after being dug up.
At that time, the construction workers did not know what this thing was, but the fishermen who lived on the coast for generations, how could they not know it was a treasure?
I don't know who blabbed it out, but the construction team was furious when they found out that this treasure was Longwen Xiang.
In just a few days, the construction unit, the villagers of Longtou Village, and the contractor of this land were all in an uproar over the dragon's saliva that had been dug up.
Everyone knows this is a good thing, so the ownership of this thing has been arguing endlessly. At that time, because the largest piece of dragon's blood was dug up and broken into countless small pieces that could not be smaller, it was impossible to salvage them, leaving only three pieces of dragon's blood.
The weight of these three pieces of dragon's blood resin is not low, with a total weight of almost over 100 kilograms. Such heavy dragon's blood resin caused a sensation in the international market where the annual trading volume was less than 100 kilograms at that time.
At that time, a large perfume company in France came to inspect the product and immediately offered 20,000 euros per kilogram after seeing its quality. At that time, the exchange rate of the euro to the RMB was still at a high level of 1:13.
This 100 kg of oud, wouldn't it be able to buy 2 million euros, over 20 million RMB? At that time, it was only around 2007, and over 20 million wasn't a small amount of money.
If it were now, this price would be even more astronomical, because the internet has not yet been widely promoted domestically, so Li Yifan would have no way of knowing what the current international prices for dragon's saliva are. However, he knew that those few pieces of dragon's saliva, even if buried underground, would eventually be dug up by others, so it was better to take matters into his own hands.
He didn't feel guilty for taking away these dragon's saliva, because compared to the final outcome of these dragon's saliva in his past life, he thought it was better that these buried treasures fell into his own hands.
In the past, developers, construction companies, and villagers of Longtou Village fought fiercely over these three pieces of dragon's saliva incense weighing 100 kilograms, but the final result was astonishing.
After that, some municipal government personnel appeared and read out two laws in an orderly manner. Whatever is found within the national territorial waters belongs to the state. Then the police took action, and these three pieces of agarwood were confiscated by the country.
At that time, the villagers of Longtou Village were all furious. This was clearly something found on their land under their feet, how did it suddenly become the country's?
Later, the government came forward to comfort the crowd, saying that this is a national treasure, please rest assured, these treasures will be properly preserved by the country and will be collected in the Historical Museum of Bincheng.
After several attempts to calm things down, it didn't blow up again until a few years later when another piece of news broke out. It turned out that these dragon's saliva were secretly kept by the head of Longtou Village at that time and sold internationally, with the money going into his own pocket.
Years later, the district head was caught in a scandal and on the eve of his arrest, he received a tip-off and escaped abroad, where he lived a life of luxury with the hundreds of millions he had embezzled domestically.
So at this time, in Li Yiqiang's view, it would be better for these treasures to fall into his own hands rather than those of corrupt officials. At least if he got them himself, they would be "rotten meat in the pot".
After several days of searching, Li Yifan had searched the entire dock area where he had renovated before, but still couldn't find the Longyan Xiang buried in the shallow layer.
This also made him anxious in his heart, with only two more days to go before the family restaurant would close down and his parents would be idle, which was probably when Er Yi and her husband would make their move.
The old mother, who was not mentally prepared at all, would definitely have a hard time accepting such a betrayal from her own family members for a while. If I didn't do something to distract her, the old mother might even get sick from anger caused by my aunt's family.
In her previous life, it was because of this incident that her mother fell ill, and every time Li Yifan thought about it, she felt anxious and flustered, but the more anxious she became, the more she couldn't find anything.
After all, when these dragon spittle fragrances were dug out in his previous life, he was not one of the workers who personally participated in the excavation work. He only roughly saw the location where they were excavated after they were dug out, so as for the specific location at that time, he wasn't very clear.
It wasn't until later that I heard from the people who participated in the excavation, when the excavator first dug down, it only dug less than 30 centimeters before hitting the ambergris. Unfortunately, because they couldn't see clearly underwater and didn't know what they were digging up, the operator of the excavator didn't stop, resulting in the largest piece of ambergris on top being crushed to powder, while the three pieces below were preserved.
For the past two days, Li Yifan had been searching with a simple diving tool in the place he remembered, and he had already searched nearly a hundred times, but still found nothing, so he was getting anxious, could it be that he had misremembered?
Those dragon ambergris were found elsewhere? Thinking of this, Li Yifan couldn't help but feel even more lost and anxious.
Forget it, there are still about 30 square meters of shallow sea area that have not been searched, tomorrow will be the last attempt, if not found, can only give up and think of other ways.
The next morning, Li Yifan got up early and rushed to the beach after breakfast. His elder sister and brother-in-law had already gotten used to his obsession with swimming and diving by the sea over the past few days, so they only reminded him to be careful before saying nothing more.
Fortunately, the weather has been clear for these days, and there is no wind on the sea surface. Moreover, those excavation places are all shallow waters, with a maximum depth of only over two meters. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult for Li Yifan to complete this task in such a short time by hand alone.
Today is the last day, so Li Yifan's heart is a little nervous. If there are no gains today, tomorrow will be the day when the restaurant closes down.
He walked down to the mark left yesterday, Li Yifan began to dive underwater, and then used a small iron pipe that had been prepared long ago to probe under the sandy beach at the bottom of the sea. After probing about two square meters, he suddenly felt that this time the inserted iron pipe shook, as if it had hit something hard.
Li Yifan's heart suddenly burst with excitement, and now there was something on his face...
After a flurry of busy activity, Li Yifan's heart was overjoyed to see the small yellowish thing that looked like a stone and emitted a foul smell being moved onto the shore by himself.
